Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | 1:58 a.m.
The Videotron Centre was built with one goal in mind: to play host to the reborn Nordiques, because NHL expansion wasn’t going to consider Quebec City without a modern arena in place. Well, the arena exists, and Quebec City still isn’t getting an NHL team.
Whether the snub was because of the weak Canadian dollar, the questions about the market size, or the NHL’s desire to balance its conferences, Las Vegas got an expansion team and Quebec City didn’t. And now Quebec City is stuck with a big expensive arena that it paid for, and continues to pay for.
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